The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language

Summary: REMIT translates formal QUERYMASTER relational expressions into natural language, complementing NEL’s English-to-query direction. This bidirectional design supports query verification by letting users inspect database queries in readable paraphrases. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7957
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,955 | 45.43%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. B.G.T. Lowden (University of Essex)
2. A.N. de Roeck (University of Essex)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lowden_vldb86,
        title = {{The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language}},
        author = {Lowden, B.G.T. and de Roeck, A.N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        pages = {365},
        year = {1986}
}

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11,748	Toward Pure Natural Language Interaction with Databases	2020	CIDR	5.093636e-05

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